Ghostborn

Eldric Holloway should have stayed dead.

Four years ago, his soul was dragged before the Grim Reaper - a towering, bone‑cold presence who offered him a single impossible bargain:
return to the living and serve Death... or vanish forever.
Eldric chose life, but the price has been stalking him ever since.

Now he walks the cemetery at night, guiding lost spirits through the fog with only Ghost - a black cat carrying a dead man's soul - to keep him grounded. But something darker has begun clinging to Eldric's home, a black mist that pulses with hunger. And Grim himself appears without warning, leaving behind a chill that sinks into Eldric's bones.

"Find the souls hiding from me," Grim commands.
Refuse, and Eldric's borrowed life ends.

But the dead aren't the only ones drawn to him.

A young woman named Klara arrives at his door, led by her ghostly grandmother and carrying a strange familiarity Eldric can't explain. Klara sees spirits too - and the darkness stalking Eldric seems to notice her.

As the veil thins and the fog turns hostile, Eldric begins to understand the truth behind his resurrection:
Grim didn't bring him back out of mercy. He brought him back because something worse is coming.

And it wants the boy who escaped death.

Some deals save you.
Some damn you.
Eldric's did both.